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Award-winning documentary about dolphin slaughter will be shown Thursday as Orca Relief fund-raiser

The award-winning film “The Cove” will show Thursday, 7 p.m., in the Palace Theatre as a fund-raiser for Orca Relief Citizens’ Alliance.

The film’s director, Louie Psihoyos, will attend the showing. Psihoyos is also the executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society.

There will be a reception with the director after the movie at The Bluff Restaurant and Bar in Friday Harbor House. Tickets are available by contacting Shane Elben at 378-8628 or shane@stratnews.com. Ticket prices are $15 for the movie only, and $50 for the movie and reception.

“The Cove,” a documentary, describes how Richard O’Barry, director Psihoyos and a team of adventurers penetrated the tight security around the Taiji cove to document the mass slaughter of dolphins.

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